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Monday, August 15, 2011

Windows 7 Logging on Temporary Profile

Windows 7 Logging on Temporary Profile

One of our users recently had an issue with logging into his laptop running Windows 7. Every time he tried to log in, his icons were missing and all of his settings (Outlook, favorites, etc) would be reset to their defaults. As it turned out, his user profile had become corrupted and needed to be replaced. I found this fix from Microsoft that showed how to get his user profile back up and running successfully:

1. Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem.

2. Back up all data in the current user's profile folder if the profile folder still exists, and then delete the profile folder. By default, the profile resides in the following location:

5.Under the ProfileList subkey, delete the subkey that is named SID.bak.

Note SID is a placeholder for the security identifier (SID) of the user account that is experiencing the problem. The SID.bak subkey should contain a ProfileImagePath registry entry that points to the original profile folder of the user account that is experiencing the problem.